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A catfish may ask you for sensitive images and money. Many scammers use already available photos of other people in their fake personas, which may be possible to spot using a reverse image search.
Pretty much anyone engaging online with people they don’t know in real life is potentially at risk for catfish scams — though single people on the quest for love are particularly vulnerable.
Scammers know this, and appeal to it pretty regularly. Fake marketing messages with ridiculous markdowns are a common ploy, for example (no, you aren't getting Louis Vuitton or a PS5 at that price).
Similarly to a traditional Carnival celebration involving attendees masking their faces, the Internet allows catfishers to mask their true identities.. Catfishing refers to the creation of a fictitious online persona, or fake identity (typically on social networking platforms), with the intent of deception, [1] usually to mislead a victim into an online romantic relationship or to commit ...
Because the scammers are working in groups, someone in the group can be online and available to send e-mail or text messages to the victim at any hour. [5] The rotation between different scammers, all claiming to be the same person, is difficult to detect in text-based messages, whereas it would be obvious if a different person showed up for a ...
Sadfishing can be caused by many things, the main reason being that someone doesn't get enough attention, and/or has low self-respect.This is proven by the fact that people sadfishing are looking for compliments: very close to narcissistic behaviour, but with desire for compliments from other people for self-satisfaction.
A devastated family is speaking out after an online catfishing scheme led to three killings in Southern California last week.
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